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Gracefully insane : the rise and fall of America's premier mental hospital / Alex Beam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beam, Alex.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospitals--Massachusetts--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- McLean Hospital--History.
- McLean Hospital.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An entertaining and poignant social history of McLean Hospital--temporary home to many of the troubled geniuses of our age--and of the evolution of the treatment of mental illness from the early 19th century to today
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 A Visit to the Museum of the Cures; 2 By the Best People, for the Best People; 3 The Mayflower Screwballs; 4 The Country Clubbers; 5 The Search for the Cure; 6 The Talk Cure; 7 Welcome to the Twentieth Century; 8 The Mad Poets' Society; 9 Staying On; 10 Diagnosis; 11 Physician, Heal Thyself; 12 Life Goes On; Acknowledgments; Notes on Sources; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-04933-3
- 9786613049339
- 0-7867-5036-7
- OCLC:
- 707067879
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